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Women in Motorboat

Date: 1941
Description: Two bathing suit-clad women demonstrating their Evinrude motorboat on a Wisconsin lake.
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Boating on the Lake

Date: 1937
Description: Woman at the tiller of a motorboat with tree-lined shore in the background. She is wearing a captain's hat at a jaunty angle and a sailor middy blouse.
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Motorboating

Date: 1955
Description: View of woman smiling and wearing a bathing suit while sitting in the back of a motorboat. She is steering the outboard motor on a lake. Behind her is the ...
Postcard

St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum

Date: 11 10 1905
Description: A group of people are in a motorboat, named "Quo Vadis,, in the lake in front of St. Joseph's orphan asylum. Caption reads: "St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum, Gr...
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GIs at Warner Beach

Date: 08 02 1944
Description: Four WAC lieutenants posing on the rail of the life launch. From left to right are Virginia Harmon, Jane Dunning, Ardeth Cauble, and Helen Durr.
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Group of People in "Leona" Motorboat

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Description: View across water towards a group of people, two men and five women, in a motor boat.
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Motorboat Launch

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Description: View from pier of a young couple sitting in a motorboat launch with an older woman. The two women are wearing hats with voluminous scarves and light-colore...
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On a Motor Boat

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Description: Elevated view of two young men and two young women sitting in a motorboat. The driver is wearing a shirt, and the two women and the other man are wearing b...
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Water Skiing on Lake Geneva

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Description: View across water towards a man and woman sitting in a motor boat, which is towing another man and woman water skiing behind it.
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Slalom Water Skiing

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Description: A young woman is sitting in the back of a motorboat watching a man slalom skiing just behind her.
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Returning to Shore

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Description: Four young men and women are standing in or around a motorboat beached on the sandy shoreline, with people swimming in the lake in the background. One woma...
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Geneva Lake Dock

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Description: View from shoreline through the trees towards a man and a woman walking down a dock. At the end of the dock is a man is holding up a woman on his shoulders...
Postcard

Speed Boats on Lake Geneva

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Description: Colorized postcard view across water towards two speed boats on Lake Geneva. The trees are in fall color along the shoreline. The name on the speedboats re...
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Henry Rumsey's Boat House

Date: 08 1922
Description: View of Henry Rumsey's boat house, which is built of logs. An American flag is flying from the flagpole at the front of the boathouse.
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Madison Neighborhoods 4th of July Celebrations

Date: 07 04 1960
Description: The 4th of July is celebrated in Madison with a water ski show on Lake Monona.
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Tommy Bartlett Show Performers

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Description: View towards group portrait of performers posing along the sandy shoreline. One man is doing a one-armed handstand on a motorboat in the foreground. Some o...
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Axe in Hand

Date: 08 30 1926
Description: View toward a man, sitting on the middle bench in the motor boat, holding an axe on his knees. A woman, possibly Anna Holt Wheeler, is sitting on the back ...
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Tommy Bartlett Boat

Date: 1957
Description: Four women are standing in the Tommy Bartlett boat. Three of them are wearing striped bathing suits, and one woman is wearing a white bathing suit. Two wat...
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Man and Woman Water Skiing

Date: 07 1956
Description: A man is driving a motorboat pulling a man water skiing who is carrying a woman on his shoulders as a part of the Tommy Bartlett Water Ski Show.

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